Maiia: Green Man symbolises biophylia - recognition of life reflected in the growing things in many ancient traditions.With ties to Robin Hood, Herne the hunter; Pan of ancient Greece. Pan may have been impetuous,but not heartless... making a flute from reeds to mourn love lost. The blues .

"...western morality tends to put all better things up high and worse things down low. By the last century, growth became inexorably caught up in this ascensionist fantasy. Darwin's thesis, The Descent of Man, became, in our minds, the ascent of man." James Hillman - The Soul's Code.Green man - wikipedia.

Green Man symbolism has roots in the Indigenous cultures of Europe, turning up - on churches and pubs alike, travelling then on invasions of other continents like Australia. A Green Man appears in 1910 on the Brisbane Print office.

"Irwin Abrams, The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates, 1901-2001, argues that the peace laureates serve "as examples for the rest of us, especially young people, to try to emulate." What gives meaning to their stories, he believes, is that they reflect the capacity each of us has for courage, commitment and moral strength." -Scott London